Novice Gift Pack

After the old man left, Naruto began to clean up the trash.

Arson, the director fell in love with me.

Ahem, no, setting fire to mountains leads to life imprisonment.

For safety's sake, Naruto extinguished the bonfire with water.

He didn't rest afterward, but returned to his lair and immediately began refining chakra.

As long as he refined chakra, he could complete the mission.

Completing the mission would allow him to start the game.

This game was his Golden Finger.

He, Uzumaki Naruto, a three-year-old orphan hated by the entire village, relied on this Golden Finger to survive.

He didn't have time to rest.

Sitting on the bed, which was covered with straw and bedding, Naruto attempted to refine chakra for the first time.

According to what the old man had said earlier, chakra was a type of energy within the human body, formed by the mixture of physical energy and mental energy.

If his understanding was correct, physical energy referred to the energy produced by the body's cells. Did it specifically mean stamina?

And mental energy? Was it willpower? Or something else?

This old man's explanation was too vague.

It was a shame he had eaten four of his grilled fish and a large bowl of mushroom soup.

However, considering his contribution, Naruto decided not to dwell on it.

Now, Naruto had to figure it out himself.

The Chakra Refining Technique, put simply, was both simple and complex.

Through meditation, one could sense the flow of cellular energy and mental energy within the body, mix the two energies in proportion, convert them, and form chakra, storing it in the meridian system.

Naruto followed the steps, clearing his mind, and began to meditate.

Gradually, he felt something.

'Am I a genius?'

This thought flashed through Naruto's mind.

The next moment, the feeling intensified. A warm current surged within him, and this sensation grew stronger and stronger, slowly flowing downwards.

Then... he felt the urge to urinate.

Naruto was speechless.

So this warm current was that.

He was happy for nothing, thinking he had achieved success in his cultivation and was about to succeed.

Going out to a spot far away and relieving himself, Naruto felt much better.

He wasn't anxious about not having extracted it successfully.

Who could cultivate spiritual energy/mana on their first day?

This chakra was probably not simple either.

He had long been prepared for a protracted struggle.

Naruto yawned and returned to his den.

After a busy afternoon, his small body was exhausted. After all, he was only three years old. Although he felt his body had unusual vitality, he was still young.

So, Naruto decided to go to sleep.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly opened his eyes.

In all the commotion, he had forgotten something.

He hadn't gotten revenge on the shop owner who had pushed him earlier that day.

Naruto was a man who held grudges.

His principle was to never let things fester; he would get revenge immediately!

Therefore, he planned to go to the entrance of the shop from earlier and throw feces.

After thinking it over carefully, Naruto decided against it. The target was too obvious. Having a conflict during the day and then having feces thrown at him at night was as clear as a louse on a monk's head.

It was too unsafe. He decided to go only after he had at least some ability to protect himself.

With this thought, Naruto got up again.

His personal safety was not yet guaranteed.

At his age, he really couldn't sleep.

Continue cultivating!

The next day, Naruto got up early again.

I don't know what time I went to sleep yesterday, but I was completely out of it.

The only reason I could wake up so early was a sense of urgency deep in my heart, pushing me.

In a daze, Naruto felt like he was back in his third year of high school.

Those last 100 days.

I had a real nightmare.

"Seriously, I've transmigrated, and I'm still experiencing high school life." Muttering this, Naruto started to wash up, eat, and continue his training.

The second day, I finally felt something, but this time it wasn't about bodily functions.

There was progress, but no success.

The third day, did I finally succeed?

Naruto didn't have much of a concept of Chakra; he didn't even know if he succeeded or not. He only knew he had succeeded when he received a completion notification for the quest.

[Initial quest completed, rewards have been issued, please check your Inventory.]

[System loading.]

"I'm truly a genius." Praising himself, Naruto happily opened the panel.

The entire game interface hadn't fully loaded yet, still displaying 'loading.'

Naruto wondered if the transmigration had caused this System to be unable to connect to the server.

However, even though the online services couldn't load, the local services were still running normally.

Naruto opened his Inventory and saw a gift pack, clearly in the style of an online game, lying there.

He clicked to open it, and an interface popped up.

[You have opened the Novice Gift Pack, drawing from the prize pool.]

Then it just kept displaying 'drawing.'

Naruto stared at this page for half an hour. The page hadn't changed at all, still displaying 'drawing.'

This thing, like before, seemed unable to connect to the server, causing it to fail to load.

"This trash game."

Seeing this, Naruto gritted his teeth in anger.

He had thought that the moment his Golden Finger arrived, it would be time to unleash his power.

And this is what he got?

"Forget it." Naruto went back to what he was doing.

By the time he went out for a stroll and returned with three fish, the interface still showed no activity.

It wasn't until the afternoon, at sunset, as he returned to the shelter in his tree hollow.

[Prize pool draw failed, rewards will be drawn from the initialization prize pool.]

[You have bound to Naruto Online, please choose your Novice Rewards:

A. SSSSSS-Rank Talent (Unique)

B. Infinite Chakra (Limited)

C. Summon Beast: Nine-Tails - Fully Awakened Version (Limited)]

"Unique, limited, limited. Is this game's drop rate this high?" Seeing these three options, Naruto found it hard to believe.

Although Naruto didn't play many games in his past life, he had heard about drop rates.

His roommate, who loved playing games, was the epitome of an Unlucky Person, with frighteningly dark luck. The gacha rates in various games were terrifyingly low for him; he rarely got anything good, always settling for pity rewards, never truly hitting a jackpot.

His roommate had spent who knows how much money. Later, that roommate resigned himself to his fate.

In the end, it was usually Naruto who stepped in for him.

But Naruto remembered that his own luck was just average. When he drew cards for his roommate, the drop rates were normal.

So, what was this?

Was it a BUG?

Recalling the prompt from earlier, Naruto felt it was quite possible.

This was probably a blessing in disguise.

However, staring at these three options, Naruto couldn't decide for a moment.

It seemed this game assumed he was very, very familiar with this world, but he truly wasn't familiar with it at all.

How should he choose?

Naruto could only try to use his experience from his past life to make a decision.

In terms of rarity, one unique and two limited items – there was no question that the unique one should be chosen.

In terms of function, Option A, SSSSSS-Rank Talent (Unique), was a growth-oriented option. But he was currently facing a survival crisis and needed immediate combat power.

Option B, Infinite Chakra (Limited), was equivalent to infinite Mana?

Option C, Summon Beast: Nine-Tails - Fully Awakened Version (Limited), seemed to be a battle pet?

After some thought, Naruto made his decision.